THE SOUND AND THE DANCING BODY
Exploring the immediate and complementary relationship between sound/music and dance, we will work on refine our sense of timing and the relationship between the movement and the sound, deepening the clarity and quality of the movement, while creating dance pieces.The work will start from the the research of our personal movement through physical and anatomical principles and evolve in to a careful game of actions, movements, grooves and flows, in playful and active relationship with space and time , building towards techniques of instant composition.
Working with live music , we will look how a deeper understanding of musicality in movement can lead to more clarity in the tension and emotion in the material we compose. Through opening up our ability to sense time through the movement, we will work to expand our awareness to the environment and the possibility of a heightened listening through body and sound.
By establishing a constantly evolving dialogue in the flow of sound and movement and through the active use of imagination and intuition, we will work on the compositional choices that the dancer must take in the immediacy of the present moment, learning to use the body within different space-time frames to create choreographies and performances
in “real time”.
The workshop is aimed at performers, dancers, and musicians who wish to engage in the physical dynamics of instant composition.
The workshop is held together with Francesco Ghirlanda ( drummer).
Upcoming dates: 29, 30, 31 May 2024 | 16:30 - 19:30 . Potsdamer Tanztage 2024
THE CREATIVE BODY, THE POETIC BODY
Based on improvisation and instant composition, the workshop offers a space to explore the multi-faced awareness of a dancer/performer in a comprehensive and playful approach. It will provide practical and creative tools through imagination and intuition, working on how we bring our physicality into dance within a real-time composition.
A warm up will lead into an exploration of movement qualities and
dynamics, playing with natural principles in body and space, such as gravity, breath, energy flow. Integrating speed changes, textures and coordination, to create fluidity, efficiency and awareness in the movement, we will observe and rediscover our own interaction with vocabulary, timing and rhythm. Exploring different movement ideas, we will challenge our creativity and perception as well as the movement research.
The poetry of the movement will be another of the themes addressed, for the use of an active imagination in the creation of the movements, phrases and instant compositions.
Great space will also be given to the practice of performance through the study of some essential tools of composition, growing from individual tuning to partnering and group work constellations.
Upcoming dates 2024:
18 February / 10 March / 14 April
11:00- 13:00
In Fabrik Potsdam
EMBODYING LANDSCAPES
Composition lab and Performance project
Improvisation workshop for site specific composition and body work. An opportunity to explore your body in an enveloping landscape, to improve your improvisation skills, creating the architecture of your own dance within the natural and urban landscapes.
A creation work where it is explored and analyzed through instant composition skills, how the body and the sound can transform the space and be transformed by it. The body will become a new sonic instrument, a specific tool for a choreographic score in connection with space and time. Simultaneously, we'll investigate the body' s new abilities to produce a dance vocabulary inspired by a receptive, intuitive, playful and instinctive attitude.
The poetry of the body is explored and supported within the performative frame.
Through this way, the participant will acquire the essential tools to perform an action in an open space and share it with an audience, in order to create a performance as final result.
This project is held together with Rossella Canciello and Stefania Petracca.
Read more:
https://embodying-landscapes.weebly.com/
Composition lab and Performance project
Improvisation workshop for site specific composition and body work. An opportunity to explore your body in an enveloping landscape, to improve your improvisation skills, creating the architecture of your own dance within the natural and urban landscapes.
A creation work where it is explored and analyzed through instant composition skills, how the body and the sound can transform the space and be transformed by it. The body will become a new sonic instrument, a specific tool for a choreographic score in connection with space and time. Simultaneously, we'll investigate the body' s new abilities to produce a dance vocabulary inspired by a receptive, intuitive, playful and instinctive attitude.
The poetry of the body is explored and supported within the performative frame.
Through this way, the participant will acquire the essential tools to perform an action in an open space and share it with an audience, in order to create a performance as final result.
This project is held together with Rossella Canciello and Stefania Petracca.
Read more:
https://embodying-landscapes.weebly.com/